Wireless mesh network good as gold
When a coalition of emergency response agencies in the San Francisco Bay area built a wireless mesh network for a recent communications field exercise, the big surprise was how easy it was to use.
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Some federal information on the Web sheds a flickering light on past events that were at various times horrific, arduous, mundane, happy or triumphant. See Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938, which contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
Another View: Graduation advice for managers
The graduation season is one of optimism and inspiration. Today, with the emphasis on lifelong learning, many managers get their college degrees or certifications while working. This is an occasion to celebrate and to think about the future.
Time to perform
Good for the FBI, for revising the contract for its Virtual Case File system. Not much has gone right for the FBI recently, including this project. A linchpin of the agency's Trilogy modernization project, the VCS is headed for poster-child status among failed projects.
Emerge2 program to seek bids soon
The program is aimed at overhauling the Homeland Security Department's back-office systems.
DOD provides IPv6 access to its research network
Two DOD networks are piloting the transition to the next IP generation.
Four honored for performance-based contracting success
As agencies continue to struggle in using performance-based contracting, four federal employees proved it's not as hard as it looks.
CIO Council crafting reusable-components paper
The CIO Council's Enterprise Architecture Committee is finalizing a white paper that will give agencies a strategy on how to share software.
USDA approves $47 million in loans for rural broadband
The Agriculture Department approved $47 million for five rural broadband telecommunications loans.
Solaris goes open-source
Sun Microsystems Inc. confirms long-rumored plans to make its proprietary Solaris operating system open-source.
DOD begins cross-credentialing pilot
Program will test interoperability of government and private-sector ID credentials.
Tricare pharmacy links go live
Tricare Retail Pharmacy program links military members, beneficiaries to about 53,000 civilian pharmacies.
Lockheed, General Dynamics to build high-tech ships
Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics won options to complete designs of high-tech, networked ships intended to operate in coastal waters.
Defense committee urges data mining framework
Committee calls for a regulatory framework for all DOD data mining, a privacy officer and a panel of external advisers to identify and resolve privacy issues.
Agencies attest share-in-savings contracts are possible
As more agencies try new contracting method, they "are realizing this will work for consolidation and fee generating initiatives," a GSA executive says.
Education's student aid office serves as e-gov model
Office used Web and e-government technologies to put information and applications online, and personalize the college search, admissions and aid processes.
Hobbs to be new Treasury CIO
<font color="CC0000"> (UPDATED ) </font color>Ira Hobbs, deputy CIO at Agriculture for the past seven years, has a history of advancing cross-government initiatives, program management and enterprise architecture.
Army picks software to automate training ammo requests
The Army is deploying Silanis Technology software to handle ammunition requests electronically.
IP network to support next-gen satellites
VPN will distribute meteorological and Earth observation data from the National Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System decade's end.
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